Elevated-railway switch.



PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

J. HUGHES.

ELEVATED RAILWAY SWITCH.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 28,1902.

N0 MODEL.

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Patented November 22, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEErcE.

JAMES HUGHES, OF MOUNT VERNON, IOWA.

ELEVATED-RAILWAY SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,300, dated November22, 1904.

Application filed November 28,1902. Serial No. 133,154. (No model.)

be it known that 1. JAMES HUGHES, a citizen of the United States.residing at Mount Vernon, in the county of Linn, in the State of Iowa,have invented a new and useful Elevated-Railway Switch, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to elevated railways, and has for its object toproduce asimple and convenient method of switching cars from a track atone level to another at a lower or higher level.

The nature of the invention will fully appear in the description andclaims following, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, inwhieh- Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating my improved switchingapparatus as applied to two tracks at different levels. Fig. 2 is a planview of the same. Fig. 3is an end View showing the track shifting orswitching mechanism.

In the drawings, A denotes the arched substructure of an elevatedrailway. Above this, supported by posts B. are two tracks O and .D,respectively, the latter above the former high enough to allow cars topass under it. To switch cars from one of these tracks to the other isthe subject-matter of this invention, and the apparatus for this purposewill now be described.

A portion of the lower track E is inclined, as shown, until the top ofthe grade is about half-way to the level of the upper track.Corresponding to this inclination of the lower track the upper track hasa section Finclined in the opposite direction, with the free ends of itsrails beveled to rest on top of the lower rails, as shown in Fig. 1.

section of track is adapted to swing laterally, as shown in Fig. Theswitch-track is sup- J is a winch,

The other end adoins the level upper track, and the inclined to which isconnected a cable K, making a number of turns about it. The ends of thecable are attached to opposite sides of the switch-track, respectively.The winch is actuated by a train of gearing L, mounted be tween theposts B and B and operated through the medium of a crank M.

The operation of the device is so simple as to require littledescription. Swung to one side, as shown in Fig. 2, the lower line isopen for the passage of cars along it. \Yhen, however, it is desired totransfer a car moving to the right to the upper track, the switch trackis swung over parallel with the lower track, and the car may then passup the grade to said upper track.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of elevated railway tracks at different levels, thelower track having an ascending inclined portion, an oppositely-inclinedsection of track leading to the upper track, with one end free to swingsidewise, supporting posts and girders for said tracks, hangers withantifriction -rollers to support the swinging track on cross-girders,and means substantially as described to swing said track back and forth.

2. The combination of elevated tracks at 1 different levels, the lowertrack having an D. L. Born, V. M. Moons.

